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I have a 1TB external drive that suddenly stopped showing up in My Computer yesterday. I can see it in device manager and disk management. I kept getting a pop up telling me I had to format it before it could be used but I don't want to do that, there are 10 years of family pictures plus other items that I want/need. Luckily I came upon the video on YouTube for TestDisk and I have it running now. It's been running for 11 hours and says it has 35 hours to go. I didn't see the steps that said to analyze or choose Intel etc... I'm attaching some screenshots with the hopes that you'll tell me it is working.